Recent Exhibition Setup

Thought I'd share the canopy I designed to go over my final year project boards. I used Rhino/Grasshopper to parametrically divide a face into a skewed grid, each skewed square then divided into triangles which are themselves offset inwards. The outer and inner offset curves created space for the holes and left space for the material of the ply. I judges the amount of offset intuiting the amount to cut out without making the piece too weak. The design was originally in three parts due to the size limitations of the university CNC machine. The machine broke the week before the exhibition! Therefore I outsourced. Thankfully, Gee Cee Joinery (http://www.geeceejoinery.co.uk/) helped me out at a reasonable price, and within a day I had a perfectly CNC cut piece of ply.

I'm sure you'll agree, the effect is quite pleasing aesthetically.




The presentation boards themselves will soon be on my design portfolio.

The projector showed a video slide show controlled by an Arduino connected to an ultrasonic proximity sensor, fading between two videos (one concept video, one building and masterplan visualisation) in MaxMSP/Jitter using various serial data manipulation patches. More detail to come.

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A far cry ahead of a sketch once done to show the idea to my tutor...
Location: Derby, UK

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